Published: 22 Apr 2014 - 12:42 am | Last Updated: 25 Jan 2022 - 06:42 am
An Afghan schoolgirl reads aloud from a book during a lesson in Kandahar yesterday. The literacy rate in Afghanistan is about 30 percent and about 42 percent of the country’s population is under the age of 14. According to Unicef, more boys than girls attend classes in primary school in Afghanistan.
